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Directors Guild of America, USA: 1959

DGA Award

Date:	7 February
Location:	Beverly Hilton Hotel, Los Angeles, California, USA

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures


Winner:
	Gigi (1958) - Vincente Minnelli; George Vieira (assistant director) (plaque)
Other Nominees:
	Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) - Richard Brooks (I) Cowboy (1958) - Delmer Daves Damn Yankees! (1958) - George Abbott; Stanley Donen I Want to Live! (1958) - Robert Wise (I) Teacher's Pet (1958) - George Seaton (I) The Big Country (1958) - William Wyler The Brothers Karamazov (1958) - Richard Brooks (I) The Defiant Ones (1958) - Stanley Kramer The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958) - Mark Robson (I) The Long, Hot Summer (1958) - Martin Ritt (I) The Vikings (1958) - Richard Fleischer The Young Lions (1958) - Edward Dmytryk Vertigo (1958) - Alfred Hitchcock (I)

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Television


Winner:
	"77 Sunset Strip" (1958) - Richard L. Bare; Claude Binyon Jr. (assistant director) (plaque) - For episode "All Our Yesterdays".

Lifetime Achievement Award


Awarded to:
	Frank Capra

DGA Honorary Life Member Award


Awarded to:
	George Sidney (II)